Cloud Computing- The Guardian Angel for SME's and Startups

Cloud computing is one of the revolutionary emerging technology which has provided us with endless opportunities to excel efficiently. This technology has broaden up the horizon of computing applications. It is basically a internet based service in which various services are provided to organizations, industries and clients through the internet without physical requirement of gadgets to be provided. However, you can classify cloud computing in many perspectives depending upon your requirements such as computers for rent on the internet, virtualized servers, vast storage in sky and offshore data stations etc. In short instead of installing the local servers and purchasing gadgets to handle applications. It pin down to the sharing of computing resources. You are free from the burden of software licensing and gadget repair. The best part is that client will need to pay for the cloud service as per usage similar to other services bills like electricity. You should not have to worry about the initial investment on the infrastructure and gadgets. So, cloud computing provides you computational services on demand, that is easily available like gas and petrol. It can be further chalk down to three main sub divisions: Software as a Service (SaaS): SaaS as the name suggest is the software service that is provided over the internet. For example, Dropbox, Gmail are SaaS. These services come with a price. For instance, Google apps for enterprise can only be availed by paying for the service. * Platform as a Service (PaaS): The PaaS is basically the service right next to SaaS that provides a computing platform or solution to a tech problem as a service. Entrepreneurs requires these services known as the solution stack on top of the application software. The solution stack would comprise of a managed database and the operating system would be loaded on to it. These services are made compatible to different programming languages so we can avail maximum advantage. * Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): It is an amazing concept of providing virtual infrastructure. It includes virtualization, servers, network and storage. The most popular IaaS are Amazon Web Service and Rackspace.